# Control Whether Users Can Pause a Flow from a Visualforce Page

After you embed a flow in a Visualforce page with the `<flow:interview>` component, consider whether you want to let users pause flows from that page. Set the `allowShowPause` attribute to false to prevent users from pausing.

Whether the **Pause** button appears depends on three settings.

- Your org’s Process Automation settings must have `Let users pause flows` enabled.
- For this `<flow:interview>`, `allowShowPause` must not be false. The default value is true.
- Each screen must be configured to show the **Pause** button.

## Example

In a Visualforce page, you’ve embedded a flow that includes three screens. Screen 1 is configured to show the **Pause** button. Screens 2 and 3 are configured to not show the **Pause** button.

| Let Users Pause Flows(Process Automation setting) | `allowShowPause`(Visualforce component) | Result Pause button                                                  |
| ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Enabled                                           | `true` or not set                       | Pause button appears only on the first screen                        |
| Enabled                                           | `false`                                 | Pause button doesn’t appear for any screens in this Visualforce page |
| Not enabled                                       | `true` or not set                       | Pause button doesn’t appear for any screens                          |

This example embeds the MyUniqueFlow flow in a Visualforce page and doesn’t allow the **Pause** button to appear.

```visualforce
<apex:page>   
   <flow:interview name="MyUniqueFlow" allowShowPause="false" />
</apex:page>
```